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Check to see if any error messages have been received in the errMsg event when this occurs. I have seen the "T" result on orders if I exceed the margin requirements. Are you running on the demo server or your papertrading account?

I think most major brokers do a demo account... Here's the link for the think or swim one: https://www.thinkorswim.com/tos/displayPage.tos?webpage=paperMoney

UPDATE: Right now I'm doing a lot of the groundwork (read "grunt" work) for the platform, but it's gotta be done eventually, so I might as well do it right at the start. Before I go diving in to the fun stuff (charting, etc), I wanted to get the order system in place. This involves a MySQL...

What makes BP immoral and XOM/CVX/PBR, etc "moral?"

I like how at least 50% of those "work outfits" cling to her tits and ass like Cat Woman's lycra body suit.

Even if BP somehow incurs a huge charge, does anyone actually think they won't find a way to fight/defer/stretch it out? My guess is that any fees involving "real" money (billions and billions) as well as any lawsuits that are generated at the state or federal level are going to drag on forever.

Only if she's 5'3. :)

I believe what you are doing is called a "strangle." You are basically betting on the stock making a large move beyond your long strikes. In this case, you are buying short term options, so you are at the mercy of time decay.

I like GE, but I've also been using AUY and UNG for the last couple of months. They both have decent volume (>10M) and the spreads on the front two months are not too bad. What are you doing: buy/sell write, spreads, or trading naked?

1) Please explain how you were trying to "help" someone by directing them to your fee-based website? 2) The dishonesty stems from the fact that it is against ET rules to promote your own website unless your are a paying sponsor. You entered under the guise of someone other than yourself to...

You could certainly create this order in the API. I haven't played with using the API to modify non-API orders (i.e: something you'd placed yourself). You could enter the position by hand and then have the API enter the 2nd order. Your program would monitor the market prices and compute the...

Don't think you can do it on the standard TWS. It seems like they continue to think about adding a custom indicator to their triggers, but I haven't seen it implemented yet. The actual exit at 20 SMA and placing orders is not difficult in TWS. How much monitoring you want to have in place...

Oanda and FXCM strictly deal with the foreign exchange (FOREX). Interactive Brokers allows trading in a wide range of products: futures, equities, options, forex, etc. I don't believe SIPC protection extends to foreign exchange accounts, but I could be wrong. Again, you need to...

I would consider any broker that is a member of the SIPC to be "safe." By this, I mean that you have some recourse in the event the brokerage itself fails (similar, but not identical to, the FDIC in banks). Pretty much any named broker you can think of will be in this category. You can find...

You neglected to mention that there is a $1 minimum commission, so you must trade at least 2 option contracts or 200 shares to make full use of their pricing. Also, the TOS platform is far superior for trading options and if you are swing trading, the ease of use and flexibility offsets the...

Alright, I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you aren't affiliated with them and ask you this: Doesn't it set your hairs on end when a website says/does the following: 1) Has a profit calculator to show you how much you can make a year given trading "X" contracts at a time. 2) That...

You say that you canceled the order and that the status changed to "Pending." Do you have confirmation that the order was actually canceled? I don't know what broker you are using, but the ones I'm familiar give you feedback in that regard: Fidelity shows you a canceled message for an order. TOS...

It would probably take some effort to determine what constitutes a "trip" condition. I would think the indicator would need to be rather short term to make it useful...maybe a running average over 20-50 ticks or something, since during normal operations, you shouldn't see too many outliers...

I can't think of any indicators that are going to tell you fast enough (they'd be "slow-blow" breakers for sure unless you are using very small tick charts) Perhaps a direct monitoring of the bid/ask spread of a heavily traded instrument might be a decent indication. For example, the ES usually...

UPDATE Still plugging away on the code. As mentioned before, I have a full-time job (non-trading) as well as a life and hobbies other than programming, so I only get to code for 5-10 hours a week. Anyway, right now, I've got a small user interface running which allows the user to submit orders...